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SPONSORED: BGO — The CIO and the data scientist: Commercial real estate’s new power partnership
AUGUST 26, 2026

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SPONSORED: BGO — The CIO and the data scientist: Commercial real estate’s new power partnership

by Mona Bower

In a sponsored interview published in the September issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, BGO's Steve Reents, CIO and managing partner, and Chris Liedtke, managing director and chief data scientist, provide an in-depth description of the motivations and advantages of BGO’s data-driven investment philosophy, the specific ways they deploy data and quantitative methods to guide their decision-making on multiple levels of analysis, and the mutually-beneficial collaboration that exists between the data science team and investment leadership.

“We saw an opportunity to use best-in-class quantitative and statistical methods to identify better investments and to measure risk by analyzing markets from multiple angles at once, exploiting statistical patterns in the data that aren’t obvious to a deal team.”

 

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